1.06.2012

Poor Mitt Romney can't seem to rise above the 25-30% ceiling in all the Republican polls. Seems at least half the GOP's followers are Evangelical Christians and the vast majority of them think Mormonism-Mitts chosen delusion-is just plain crazy. Evangelical Christians themselves have a close kinship with crazy so most likely are in the know about such things.

The topic of Mitt Romney’s magic underwear has taken off on the net, thousands of articles and videos debate the stains left on the American political discourse left behind by the various Christian Crazies. Reading up on the controversies surrounding Magic Underwear and the Rapture this morning have reassured me that people will believe anything, no matter how ridicoulous, if they can first be convinced that it's part of them escaping their mortal bonds.

Here we are, while choking on the pollution of our greedocracy and consuming its excesses, while millions deeply entrenched in poverty and starvation around the globe and others, like us in Canada, wallow in our waste, while vast sums are spent on armies to protect the riches of the bloated from the hands of the needy, my fellow Americans are debating the 'truths' as devined by the different bishops of bullshit.

Democracy, like a lotta philosophies, sounds good but only can work if practiced by a well informed and well intentioned populace. Instead we are governed by the same type of self-interested-lazy-fearful primates that we greet in the mirror each morning. Maybe Mitt's Magic Underwear will ride up to save us or maybe not. Either way as long as the many allow themselves to be divided, controlled and manipulated by their most basic fears they will be ruled by the few regardless of the magic in their underwear.

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Sitting Up Mud

"Bokonon made mud. Bokonon said to some of the mud, "Sit up!" "See all I've made, the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job Bokonon had done.

"Nice going, Bokonon. Nobody but you could have done it, I certainly couldn't have. I feel very unimportant compared to You. The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around. I got so much, and most mud got so little. Thank you for the honor!"

Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep. What memories for mud to have! "What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met! I loved everything I saw! Good night. Amen."

Quotes

"Our dreams draw us foward, as water whispers to the dowser's wand."- Tony Cohan

"Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide." - Tom Robbins

"Politics is how you live your life, not who you vote for!" -Jerry Rubin

"The pencil is mightier than the pen"- Robert Pirsig

"Resist much, obey little." -Walt Whitman

When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said, “At least the handle is one of us.” — Turkish proverb

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction" - Pascal

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

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The single greatest service each of us can provide to our planet, our families and ourselves is to grow our own organic food from heritage seeds. Then to save our own seed in turn, and in so doing be part of the future solution to the present day destruction being sown by GMO's, agri-business and the bio-technology giants. - Bob Wiley